Sonic 1 prototype images
Both topics now merged together

So, it seems like these new screens, dating from 1990, have just been discovered in an old Beep Magazine:

Great stuff!

1st pic: filler slope material on Sonic's left - angled ground had not been properly drawn yet and is filled by sand
2nd pic: does anyone read Kanji here? That floating block thing sort of looks like a title card because of the little "1" in it ... then again it could be pasted over as part of the magazine.

Would've preferred scans but I guess there decent enough quality for now until he gets to a scanner and scans it. Still can't quite tell what that thing is behind sonic in the first image, could it be a Roller?

Would've preferred scans but I guess there decent enough quality for now until he gets to a scanner and scans it. Still can't quite tell what that thing is behind sonic in the first image, could it be a Roller?

"Will it replace Alex?" Lol.

It looks like it could be a Roller.

What I'm curious about, is the "Original Sega character action game targetted for spring release." Was Sonic 1 delayed a few months?

Words cannot describe how giddy and excited these two new screen shots have made me. I'm so happy we got new photo's of the earliest build. This is the one good thing out of that whole Sonic prototype hoax fiasco. I'm so happy these were found and the person was nice enough to share them. Now I want to see gameplay footage or even more screen shots really badly. Sonic's running animation looks slightly different, and holy crap the monsters from the concept art were the original enemies! It's the purple ghost guy from the concept art but blue, without legs and wearing red gloves instead of yellow.

I wonder what other monsters were in this build and level? I wanna know how they behaved and attacked. When Sonic would hit them what would happen? Since they aren't machines? This a really good and incredible find because I have always wondered when they scrapped the monster and Madonna idea for the final which was robots and Eggman. Even in the Tokyo Game Show description of the game the plot line was "A super sonic powered rodent who fights monsters." This is so amazing, I'm all giddy like a kid on Christmas. I wish we could uncover even more screen shots or at least gameplay footage. Now we know though that monsters were in the earliest build before being scrapped.

I believe, boring as it sounds, that weird blue blur is just the camera catching Sonic's balled up jump form for a split second before he landed. Like that other proto pic where his finger is shown in two places at once.

After some analyzing I think this bastard is indeed that purple monster from the concept art.

His body is way too obscured, but his eyes are def there. Going by the shades in the magazine scan, I can make up his big mouth as well.

He looks a bit different, he could've been redesigned along the way. It happened before (in this case after?) with the badniks. The image is just way too blurry to make out the rest of his body clearly.